OUR CITIES ARE PREPARING FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF WINTER WEATHER FRIDAY MORNING. 40/29'S DARBY BYBEE IS LIVE IN FAYETTEVILLE TO TELL US IF THEY'RE READY. WE'RE HERE AT THE FAYETTEVILLE STREETS DEPARTMENT. AND, ARE THEY READY? (CAMERA WILL PAN TO THE SALT BINS FULL OF SALT) YEAH THEY'RE READY ALLRIGHT. IN FACT, OFFICIALS HERE SAY THESE SALT BINS ARE NOW AT FULL CAPACITY. (Joey Smith, Field Operations Supervisor) "We have all of our salt in stock, all of our grit, and our beet juice and our calcium chloride, and we're fully stocked." STREETS DEPARTMENTS ACROSS NORTHWEST ARKANSAS HAVE BEEN BUSY THESE LAST FEW WEEKS, RESTOCKING THEIR SUPPLIES OF ICE MELTING. FROM ROGERS TO BENTONVILLE TO FAYETTEVILLE, ROAD DEPARTMENTS SAY SUPPLIES ARE FULLY STOCKED. IN ROGERS, ROAD WORKERS SAY THEY WILL BE EXPERIMENTING WITH A MIXTURE OF BEET JUICE AND A PRODUCT CALLED SNOW MELT. IN FAYETTEVILLE, JOEY SMITH SAYS HIS GUYS WILL BE DROPPING A CUSTOM MIXTURE OF THEIR OWN. "Is that the salt right there?" "Yes sir, that's the salt." "And then the rest of this is what?" "It's grit, it's limestone grit. We use it mainly for traction, and we throw salt in there so it will slowly dissolve, instead of quickly going away." AND WITH THEIR BINS NOW FULL OF HUNDREDS OF TONS OF THIS SALT/GRIT MIXTURE, AND MANY GALLONS OF BEET JUICE AND CALCIUM CHLORIDE, SMITH SAYS IT COULD BE ENOUGH TO LAST THE REST OF THE WINTER. "It depends on the event really, if we had to treat everyday, we would have somewhere between three weeks to a month of everyday treatment." OF COURSE, HAVING THESE BINS FULLY STOCKED WITH SALT IS REALLY GOOD NEWS. ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU CONSIDER WE COULD BE SEEING A SECOND BRUSH WITH WINTER LATE IN THE WEEKEND. LIVE IN FAYETTEVILLE, DARBY BYBEE, 40/29 NEWS. THE FAYETTEVILLE STREETS DEPARTMENT TELLS US IT IS STILL